The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-10-17
MIR. coDDARD's SIDE.
He Claims to Have Lots of unpub-
ushed Evidence.

Morrill, Goddard, the representative of the
New York World, who accompanied the de-
tcctives and was instrumental in the arrest
of Stain and Cromwell, was seen Saturday
night in this city. In reference to the dis
credit that has been thrown upon the re-
markable story which was published in the
World, Mr.. Goddard said:
If the press Of Maine will suspend judg-
ment on the matter until the prisoners have
been arraigned and held for trial, the neces-
sity of retracting what they are now print
ing will be avoided. The hearing will be
next Saturday at Dexter, and there is no
question whatever that the men will be held
for the grand jury. | speak from personal
knowledge of allithe facts and evidence that
is now in the possession of the prosecutors.
have followed step by step for several
weeks in company with the officers, ~and a
portion of the evidence have received my
self. Everything has been verified to the
minutest detail and there is large bulk of
evidence have not telegraphed to my paper
because do not wish to expose the case to
the defence.
II can say that what Frank Stain has said
is absolutely true and will be proved in
every particular In the Worlds account n e
trip when the gang robbed the bank and
murdered Treasurer Barron. This is an er
ror. oung Stain was in Jail at that time,
and the mistake was an error OF the stenog-
rapher who took his story in New York
He dictated very rapidly some five or six
stenographer made the mistake of saying
that young Stain was in Dexter when in re-
allty it referred to a different person. In a
story of some $4,000 words it is remarkable
that only one error crept in. and this is the
only one. With this exception the matter is
absolutely correct and can be proved so.
"A point brought up by many is that the
confession of Stain must not be believed be-
cause 1t now Is, discovered that he has Grim
inal record. Now that nearly ten years
have elapsed and the detectives have found
no clue, it was reasonably certain that If the
Dexter mystery was ever to be cleared up, it
must come through the confession Of one of
the murderers. Now that it has come in
this way many are surprised, because the
man who confessed is a criminal. Would you
expect the confession Of the Barron murder
to be made by a. clergyman or a respected
citizen? 7u
"But Stains confession is a very small
part OF the evidence we have secured. We
can entirely dispense with HIM and vet
prove the case ten times over. In the first
=
rested both men declared that they had never
been in Dexter and had not even heard of
the town. Within the past forty-eight hours
more than dezen well-known citizens of
Dexter have positively identified both pris-
oners as two Of the suspicious men whe
were in Dexter the day of the murder. we
have many witnesses from Massachusetts
and various parts OF Maine and will produce
some startling evidence of which the news
papers know nothing at present.
"In relation to the interview with Hon.
Josiah ii. Drummond and Lawyer Crosby,
of Dexter, would like to call your attention
to the significant fact that both of these
gentlemen are attorneys for the bank. The
latter is also attorney for the prisoners. If
these men are convicted the bank officials
are placed in rather unenviable position.
1t Is a curious coincidence that the banks
counsel and the prisoners LAWYERS are the
same. Whatever may be said now / can
state that the New York World has more
than enough evidence to convict stain and
Cromwell at any moment"